BC-NH--New Hampshire News Digest, NH

Friday

Nov 16, 2012 at 2:15 PM

New Hampshire at 2 p.m.

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MEDAL OF HONOR

CONCORD — Four fallen soldiers are being remembered at New Hampshire's second Medal of Honor ceremony. The award was created to honor any New Hampshire citizen who has given his or her life while in the line of military duty since Nov. 4, 1979, the date when a group of militants took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding U.S. hostages in captivity for 444 days. By Holly Ramer. AP Photos.

NH HOUSE FIRES

TUFTONBORO — Firefighters say one person has died in a house fire in Tuftonboro, N.H. Firefighters say there were two people inside the house on Lake Winnipesaukee when the fire started early Friday. One of them escaped. A firefighter was treated for smoke inhalation.

ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:

— PUERTO RICO-STOLEN IDENTITIES — Federal agents are making arrests in Puerto Rico and five U.S. states in a crackdown on the use of stolen Puerto Rican identities by illegal immigrants and in financial crimes.

— GIFT OF LIGHTS — New Hampshire Motor Speedway is flipping the switch on a two-mile, 2.5 million-bulb light display that helps raise money for nearly 50 different children's charities.

— SUPERSTORM-PIZZA — A New Hampshire pizza maker is lending new meaning to pizza-to-go — sending an oven truck and up to 1,000 pizzas to storm ravaged Rockaway Beach in Queens, N.Y.

— RETIRED OFFICER-RIDE THEFTS — A retired police officer is facing charges for allegedly skimming nearly $5,000 from the coin-operated children's rides he was paid to maintain at a North Attleborough mall.

— OFFICERS SHOT-LAWSUIT — A police report says two years before a New Hampshire man shot at a group of officers, killing a police chief, authorities seized 21 guns from his mother's home.

— NH SKI RESORTS — At least two New Hampshire ski resorts are opening for business.

— ACCIDENT-CAR CRUSHED — Police say a driver walked away with only minor scrapes and scratches after her car became crushed beneath a tractor trailer on the Everett Turnpike in Nashua.